The Controversy Around Recognizing 'Prolonged Grief Disorder' as an Official Diagnosis - The Swaddle

The diagnosis may help boost awareness about how debilitating intense grief can be, but critics believe it will just pathologize the emotion.

“Prolonged grief disorder” is now an official diagnosis. After much deliberation in the scientific community, the DSM-5 — or the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor… [+4833 chars]

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